08.02.2007

Informal discussions on CD agenda item 1: Cessation of the Nuclear Arms race and Nuclear Disarmament

Clustering of concrete proposals for substantive issues that require more focused attention during the second part of the annual Session, with a view to commencing negotiations

Compiled by the co-ordinator, Ambassador Wegger C. Strømmen of Norway

Convention prohibiting nuclear weapons

• a convention prohibiting the development, production, testing, stockpiling, transfer, threat of use or actual use of nuclear weapons and their elimination (as expressed in the SSOD1 final declaration and action plan)

• negotiation of a Nuclear Weapons Convention prohibiting the development, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons and on their destruction, leading to the global, non-discriminatory and verifiable eliminiation of nuclear weapons with a specified timeframe

• establish a subsidiary body, preferably under item 2 of the agenda, to negotiate a convention on the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons

• negotiation of a convention on the complete prohibition of the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

• comprehensive overview over the legal, technical and political requirements for a nuclear weapons free world, including:

• prohibition to acquire, develop, test, produce, stockpile, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons

• control of nuclear weapons and fissile material holdings

• steps for destruction of all nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles

• mechanisms for verifying destruction and ensuring compliance

• international organisation to coordinate verification, implementation and enforcement under international control

• disarmament and non-proliferation education

Other legal instruments

• negotiation of a global agreement among nuclear weapon States on “no-first-use” of nuclear weapons

• negotiation of a universal and legally-binding agreement on non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon States

• negotiate an FMCT

• agreement on specific and legally binding measures to achieve the universalisation of the NPT

• multilateral agreement to reduce the operational readiness of deployed nuclear systems.

Ad hoc committee – phased programme nuclear disarmament

• an ad hoc committee to start negotiations on a phased programme for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons with a specified framework of time, including a nuclear weapon convention. (as expressed in the final documents of the 14th Ministerial Meeting of the NAM (Kuala Lumpur) and the 14th Meeting of the Heads of State or Government of NAM (Havana))

• nuclear weapon states must fulfil disarmament obligations under the NPT

• multilateral agreement to reduce nuclear arsenals by a certain number or percentage

• reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons

Transparency and Confidence Building Measures

• principles on transparency, irreversibility, verification of nuclear disarmament, including data sharing, international monitoring system, consultation and clarification procedures, on-site inspections, registry

• NWS to provide information on number and types of nuclear weapons in current arsenals and projected levels in five years. Provide status on weapons and delivery systems removed from active service or dismantled, and conversion efforts

• regular (formalised) briefings to CD members by declared nuclear weapon states

• de-alerting and de-activation of nuclear weapon systems

• taking into account the global reach and menace of nuclear weapons, adoption of measures by nuclear-weapon States to reduce nuclear danger, including the risks of accidental nuclear war, de-alerting of nuclear weapons to prevent unintentional and accidental use of nuclear weapons

• compliance mechanism that could consist of technical assistance in destruction, procedures for national implementation, dispute resolution procedure, penalties for non-compliance, recourse to the UN Security Council, UNGA and ICJ for further action

• reduction of the role of nuclear weapons in security policy

Other specific measures

• entry into force of the CTBT, maintaining the moratorium on nuclear test explosions

• establish a nuclear-weapon free zone in the Middle East

• nuclear-weapon free zones

• negotiate with a view to reaching agreement on effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. These arrangements could take the form of an internationally binding instrument

• the link between nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation

• consideration by an ad hoc committee of: simultaneous pursuit of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation; prominence of nuclear weapons in security doctrines; asymmetric possession of WMD; terrorists and WMD; cooperation in the field of nuclear energy

• adopt a comprehensive and balanced programme of work of the CD, and to establish subsidiary bodies to negotiate the four core issues

• reaffirmation of the unequivocal commitment of all nuclear weapon States to the goal of complete elimination of nuclear weapons

• reduction of the salience of nuclear weapons in the security doctrines

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